1996 Ararat Shire Hall

1996 Ararat Shire Hall

It was strange but there was no prominent date for the shire hall. It was probably built when gold mining was still an important part of the local industry, but not when it was strong or the building would have been bigger. It is now the centre of an agricultural area.
Shires are a lower level of government than the State government and are supposed to handle the local problems of town/country planning, local roads/streets, rubbish collection etc. Some of the shires were established in the early 1800’s and others were formed more recently by amalgamation of old shires. With the change from an agricultural country to a partial manufacturing one, the population of country areas has dropped dramatically. This meant that some shires had only hundreds of inhabitants spread over large areas and financial sources were not enough to sustain even the dirt roads.

This roll of film had some of the worst colour I have had.
Taken with a Pentax camera on Kodachrome 200

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